Reasons for Using Nuclear Weapons

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Reasons against the use of Nuclear

Weapons (5)

Bell Ringer: What was the name of the program to build the Atomic Bomb? Who was the lead scientist?

Agenda: Notes/discussion Objective: Through Discussion and notes

students will begin to understands the steps leading to the dropping of the atomic bomb.

In August 1939, Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, a brilliant Jewish physicist who had fled from Europe. In his letter, Einstein suggested that an incredibly powerful new type of bomb could be built by the Germans. Roosevelt organized the top- -secret secret Manhattan to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans. This was lead by J. Robert Oppenheimer. On July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists field- -tested the world’s first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. With a blinding flash of light, the explosion blew a huge crater in the earth and shattered windows some 125 miles away.

The Decision to Drop

Nazi Germany surrendered

unconditionally at 2:41 a.m., May

7, ending World War II in Europe.

At midnight May 8, the guns

stopped firing. The Pacific war

with Japan, who was Germany's

ally, continued.

U. S. President Harry S. Truman,

English Prime Minister Winston

Churchill, and Soviet Premier

Joseph Stalin met in Potsdam,

Germany between July 17 and

August 2, 1945, to discuss

strategies to end the war in the

Pacific.

The Potsdam Conference

When the Potsdam Conference

opened, the news of the successful

testing of an atomic bomb at Trinity

Site, New Mexico, reached President

Truman. The atomic bomb was now

a reality.

Churchill, Truman & Stalin at Potsdam

Truman’s First attempt at negotiating with Japan

Called for Japan’s unconditional surrender and an end to Militarism in Japan

Issued on July 26

Why did Truman decide to use the atomic Bomb against the Japanese?

Analyze documents and complete chart.

Come Monday prepared!

What were the reasons behind Truman’s decision of using the atomic bomb?

What were the suggested targets?

Agenda and Objective: Through discussion and partner activity, students will able to describe the impact of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.

Japan refused the Declaration The USA did not want to invade Japan They reasoned that using the A-bomb would

deliver a huge blow to Japan This would save the lives of hundreds of

thousands of American troops

There were four targets to choose from: Hiroshima, Kokura, Nagasaki, and Niigata

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected because they were left mostly untouched by war.

Finish- With your neighbor answer the information sheet about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.

Agenda and Objective: Through discussion and partner activity, students will able to describe the impact of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.

A B-29 Super fortress bomber named the Enola Gay was chosen to drop the first bomb on Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, Paul W. Tibbets and his crew dropped the Uranium-based Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The bomb was code named “Little Boy.”

Little Boy was the first nuclear

weapon used in warfare. It exploded

approximately 1,800 feet over

Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of

August 6, 1945, with a force equal to

20,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths

were between 70,000 to 130,000.

The Effect Of The Atomic Bomb.

An estimated total of 237,000 related deaths resulted from the explosion.

Most deaths and injuries occurred when people were trapped in their burning houses or struck by debris.

Little Boy

After being released, it took about a minute for

Little Boy to reach the point of explosion. Little

Boy exploded at approximately 8:15 a.m. (Japan

Standard Time) when it reached an altitude of

2,000 ft above the building that is today called

the "A-Bomb Dome."

The July 24, 1995 issue of Newsweek writes:

"A bright light filled the plane," wrote

Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the

Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the

first atomic bomb. "We turned back to

look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden

by that awful cloud...boiling up,

mushrooming." For a moment, no one

spoke. Then everyone was talking.

"Look at that! Look at that! Look at

that!" exclaimed the co-pilot, Robert

Lewis, pounding on Tibbets's shoulder.

Lewis said he could taste atomic

fission; it tasted like lead. Then he

turned away to write in his journal. "My

God," he asked himself, "what have we

done?" (special report, "Hiroshima: August 6,

1945")

Of the city’s 90,000 buildings, 60,000 were destroyed

This left many survivors homeless

Another B-29 named Bockscar dropped the “Fat Man” on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

The death toll (of all related deaths) was about 135,000

What city was attacked on August 6, 1945?

What city was attacked on August 9, 1945?

Name of the plane for the first attack?

Name of the second plane of the second attack?

Quiz on Wednesday!

Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers on August 14, 1945

Emperor Hirohito accepted the Potsdam Declaration

V-J Day 8/15/45

official signing of the surrender took place on September 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay,

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”

Look over the argument that you have been given…

List 3 reasons for the argument

List 3 reasons against the argument

Bell Ringer….look over notes, Atomic Bomb questions for review

Agenda Objective: Review and debate!

Tomorrow: quiz Thursday: Books!

A Time for Peace Taking Responsibility Push to Final Victory

Prompt: Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb?

Discuss your arguments that support your position. Refute arguments that go against your position.

Hiroshima- A Survivor’s Story

Four years after arriving in Japan, only 15-

year-old Mitsuo and his mother still live in

Hiroshima. His eldest brother, Toshio, is in the

Japanese merchant marines.

It's a bright, clear day. Mitsuo leaves his house

around 7:30 a.m. and walks to work. He gets

there about 8 a.m. He and his friends gather

outside, waiting for their supervisor to give

today's pep talk.

Mitsuo's mother leaves for work. Every day,

she takes the same streetcar. But today she

realizes she has forgotten some papers. She

runs back into the house to get them. Mitsuo's

mother misses her usual streetcar, and has to

wait for the next one.

It's nearly 8:15 a.m. American B-29 bombers

appear overhead. The sirens wail, but Mitsuo

and his co-workers ignore them, as usual. The

planes are headed in the direction of Tokyo.

Then, for the first time ever, Mitsuo sees the

planes reappear over Hiroshima. They're in

position now. Looking in the sky, Mitsuo sees

an object. In the instant it takes for the bomb to

drop, he feels no fear, only curiosity about this thing that glistens in the sun.

Mitsuo watches the object fall behind a mountain, Mount Hiji. The

exact spot where the bomb explodes is called "ground zero."

Mitsuo is about two miles away, with the mountain in between. At

the moment of explosion, he sees a blinding flash of light. Then

the shock wave hits. Mitsuo is blown several feet into the air and

knocked briefly unconscious. He awakens to see a giant

mushroom cloud rising into the air. Mitsuo is a witness to the first

atomic bombing in history. And Mount Hiji, which shields him from

the radiation, will help him live to tell about it.

Mitsuo's mother is outside when the bomb explodes. She is about

three miles from ground zero. She is not injured except for a burn

on her neck. In another 20 years, cancer will develop in that spot,

and she'll die from it in 1969. Still, Mitsuo's mother is luckier than

the people on the street car that she missed. They all die in the

blast.

These Pictures show

the injuries of some of

the survivors of the

atomic blast.